Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma on Friday released his end-of-year statement listing his government’s successes, but mentioning very little of the events of the past week which was seen in many circles as a defining moment in his presidency.
In line with government’s spending priorities, Zuma expanded on government’s progress in education and healthcare - the two departments which receive the biggest slice of the budgetary pie.
On education, Zuma said since 2009 government had spent R1.8 billion on early childhood development (ECD), a key pillar of the National Development Plan, with 948,768 beneficiaries nationally.
“Over 1.5 million children access ECD from 26 000 registered ECD programmes. Government pays a subsidy of R15 per child per day for 264 days of the year,” Zuma said.
On government’s Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI), first launched in 2011, Zuma said his government delivered 123 “state-of-the-art schools”.
“A further 520 schools were provided with water, 395 were given decent sanitation and 293 were connected to the power grid. These interventions have been life-changing to the learners and educators at these schools.”
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